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BRITISH BIRDS. 



the colour is much paler. Young in first plumage have a slate-grey bill, 

 flesh-coloured legs_, feet_, and orbits, and brown irides ; all the feathers of 

 the upper parts are brown, with pale edges, which arc broadest and whitest 

 ou the head and rump ; the upper tail-coverts and tail are white barred 

 with l)rown, the bars on the latter becoming confluent towards the tip ; the 

 quills are dark brown, and the underparts are white streaked with brown. 

 This plumage is very slightly moulted in the first autumn. Young in down 

 are greyish buff*, shading into white on the belly, distinctly spotted with 

 black on the head and throat, and obscurely spotted with dark brown on 

 the rest of the upper parts. 





BLACK-HEADED GULL S NEST. 



